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Cocos—continued. 
C. Datil (native name). /l., spadix 4ft. or more in length, with as 
many as 300 branches, and borne on a peduncle 16in. long ; spathe 
incurved, beaked. J. 12ft. to 16ft. long; poe linear, acuminate ; 
sheath about 1l6in. long. Caudex tall, 4in, to 12in. in diameter, 
naked, narrowly-annulate. Argentine, 1889. 
C. eriospatha (woolly-spathed). l., spadix thick, contracted ; 
rachis an to 10in. tone ranches sixty to ninety ; spathe thick 
and woody above, eating in a long point, pale fuscous within, 
softly fuscous-woolly outside. 7%. longer than in C. eapitata, 
pectinate, glaucescent; lower segments lift. to 2ft. long, 
elongated, linear, very long-acuminate, the upper ones narrow- 
linear, all rigid. Caudex dwarf or tall, Brazil, 1889. Syn. 
C. Blumenavt. 
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C. flexuosa (bending). (/., spadix 1/ft. to 2ft. Jong, long- 
edunculate ; spathe 14ft. long, woody, glabrous, deeply sulcate, 
usiform, shortly beaked. 7. somewhat crisped, about 6ft. long, 
lightly arcuate-spreading ; segments seventy to ninety on each 
side, linear, acuminate-cuspidate, densely agevegated in twos or 
threes, the central ones 10in. to 14in. long. Caudex usually tall, 
rarely dwarf, flexuous, squamate with the persistent bases of the 
two-edged petioles, Brazil. 
Cc. graminifolia (Grass-leaved). jl., spadix 20in. to 28in, long; 
lower spathe very short, the upper one very narrow, fusiform, 
obtusely beaked ; peduncle long, slender, compressed. J. slender, 
erecto-arcuate, crisped, 3ft. long; segments thirty to forty on 
each side, 8in. to 10in. long, about din. broad, acuminate. Plant 
almost stemless. Brazil. 
C. leiospatha (smooth-spathed). fe 
spadix lft. or less in 
length, slender; spathe slightly woo 
y, smooth on both surfaces. 
THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
Cocos—continued. 
1. glaucous, 3ft. long, shortly petiolate ; segments equidistant, 
linear, acuminate, Caudex dwarf, thick, naked below, with a 
Ces pres masy of persistent petioles towards the top. 
Brazil. 
C. Marie Rose. A garden name for C. Procopiana. 
C. Normanbyi (Normanby’s). A synonym of Ptychosperma 
Normanbyi. 
C. odorata (scented). _l., spathe cylindrical, elongated, apiculate. 
Jr. drupe-like, sub-globular, yellowish-green or~ pink, pulpy, 
scented. J. arched ; leaflets in threes or fives, linear-Ianceolate, 
conduplicate, acute, eoriaceous, glaucescent beneath; petioles 
spiny. Stem short. South America, before 1893. (R. H. 1693, 
p. 346, f. 110.) 
C. oleracea (pot-herb). l., spadix 1ft. to 2ft. lo -, at first erect, 
then spreading or nodding; spathe 14ft. to “it. long, longi- 
tudinally sulcate, tomentose outside when young. J. dense, 6ft. 
to 8ft. long; pinne linear, somewhat falcate, acute, obliquely 
adnate, slightly crisped, glaucous beneath. Candex 60ft. to 80ft. 
high. Brazil, 1846. The buds are used economically by the 
natives. e 
C. petrzea (rock-loving). _7l., spadix variable in size, usually 
about lft. long, the rachis simple or very rarely divided into two 
or three branches ; lower spathe shortly two- ed, the upper 
one woody, fusiform-rostrate. J. few, slender, 1sft. to 3ft. or 
more in length, shortly petiolate ; segments aggregated in twos 
or threes, solitary towards the apex, ‘linear, acuminate. Plant 
usually almost stemless. Brazil, Bolivia, &c., 1889. 
C. Procopiana (Marianna Procopio Ferriera’s). /l., spadix 16in. 
long; spathe thickened, woody, narrow-fusiform. 1. fifteen to 
twenty crowded in a dense head; segments usually in threes or 
fours, crisped, spreading, the lower ones 2ft. long and_ scarcely 
gin. broad, the upper ones shortened. Caudex about 15ft. high. 
Brawl, Syn. C. Marie Rose (of gardens). 
Cc. Pynaerti (Pynaert’s). 
C. Weddeliana. 
C. Weddeliana Pynaerti (Pynaert’s). /. 
gracefully arched ; pinnules rather broader and 
more closely placed than in the species, which 
is shown in Fig. 270. _ 
C. Yatay (native name). /., spadices 44ft. long, 
drooping ; lower gpeine 2ft. long, coriaceous, 
the upper one 44ft. long, longitudinally dehiscent 
above the middle. 7. mugh crowded, 6ft. to 10ft. 
S long, revolute-spreading, long-sheathing ; seg- 
ments fifty to sixty on each side, at length equidistant, linear, 
acuminate, the middle ones 3ft. long and 4in. broad, the upper- 
most ones filiform ; petioles spiny-serrated. Caudex 12ft. to 15ft. 
high and more than lft. in diameter, densely squamate with the 
A seedling variety of 
petiole-bases above, Brazil. 
The following species have also been introduced, but are at 
present very rare in cultivation: C. Bonneti, C. insignis, C. odorata, 
C. Yurumaguas. 
CODAMBA. A synonym of Canscora (which see). 
CODAZZIA. A synonym of Delostoma (which see). 
CODIZUM. According to the anthors of the “Genera 
Plantarum,” the nnmber of distinct species is only four, 
and they are found in the South Pacific Islands, Australia, 
and the Malayan Archipelago. The garden varieties, how- 
ever, are very numerous. ‘To those described on pp. 350-5, 
Vol. I., the following should be added : 
Cc. appendiculatum (having an appendage), J. having a 
terminal lobe borne on a filiform production of the midrib. 
Polynesia, 1875. 
C, aureo-lineatum (golden-lined). 7. green, with the exception 
15 a eer and a line from the midrib, which are yellow. 
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Cc, aureo-marmoratum (gold-marbled). 7. 1ft. long, 3in. broad, 
dark olive-green, marbled with yellow, 1884. 
Cc. aureo-punctatum Kgl dotted) i. linear, obtuse, bright 
green, dotted and spotted with yellow. 1883, A small form. 
Cc. Austinianum (Austin’s). 7. erect, 6in. to Sin. long, 2in. broad, 
blotched and margined with creamy-white and suffused with 
pinks the margins undulated. 1883. A compact form, of dwarf, 
ranching habit. ~ 
C. Beauty. J. lanceolate, green, variegated golden-yellow, the 
ground-colour eventually becoming a deep bronze, while the 
yellow variegations change into a rich rosy-crimson. South 
Pacific, 1887. 
Cc. Bismarcki (Bismarck’s) /. of a deep green, veined and 
blotched with yellow. Polynesia, 1876. 
C. Bragzeanum (José Terceiro Da Silva Braga’s). 7. pendulous, 
linear-lanceolate, 14ft. to 19ft. long ; many of the young ones pale 
yellow, marbled and mottled light green; others green, spotted 
golden-yellow ; mature ones deep olive-green, spot and 
speckled bright yellow, the midribs crimson, 1882. 
